Fast Mesh Simplification Method for Three-Dimensional Geometric Models with Feature-Preserving Efficiency

Table 2

Statistics of time consumption and thresholds for the new method and OpenMesh.

Simplification method		Triangle numbers
		42,000	38,200	34,200	30,600	26,600	22,300
The new method	Threshold	0.37	0.514	0.66	0.787	0.95	1.15
	Time (s)	0.102	0.135	0.162	0.184	0.203	0.236
OpenMesh	Threshold	2E − 14	4.5E − 14	9E − 14	1.6E − 13	3E − 13	6E − 13
	Time (s)	3.22	3.224	3.261	3.302	3.354	3.381